US_Dept_Of_Snark t1_jarjefy wrote on March 3, 2023 at 3:27 PM

I bought a refurbished Dell laptop in January 2011 for less than $500. I still use it daily. It's working fine. It's on for probably ~12 hours a day everyday. I would do it again -- except that it doesn't look like I'll be needing to for a while.

I don't think that Dell has anything wrong with people upgrading their own computer. I swapped out the hard drive for an SSD. I upgraded the RAM.

Frame work sounds pretty expensive, compared.

Glad it's working well for you though.

SandKeeper t1_jc6akbg wrote on March 14, 2023 at 10:54 AM

These allow for full mother board and cpu swaps when a new one becomes available. So rather than buying a whole laptop again you can buy individual components.

I don’t have one now because my Lenovo laptop is still doing great but when it eventually where’s out I will probably switch to one of these.